The Sun. — London, England, 1838-03-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF Tim PUBLIC JOURNALS. We were glad, on Friday night, to hear Sir flebmt Peel suggtst that it was ill for the House of Cornmoma to ennsidtr. as a preliminary to the diseustion cf the detail: if Mr. C. Buller'. Bill fur the alteration of the law relating to the triad of con troverted elections, whether it m 4 (Light not be exped to part with the ari,ilege of doeiliatt such sit: melees. intimation of an opinion was received nith evident satisfac tion, loudly expressed on both sides of the house, although .1 Sir Robert afterwards thought fit to qualify what he had said,'' by adding ti.at he did not mean to prejudge the matter. It fact, as we have more than once stated, the only mode of amending the present law which can be yertnaeently satisfacai! tett to the eleetora of the empire, will be to establish a tribes. ; pat, similar to these. by which the law of the lad is atlminis ; Wd, independent cf the Crown and of all other ex; ternal ii.fluenee4. TiT very feet of the introduction of Mr. C. Buller's measure,: the second reading of • which is fixed for Friday next, is an emaitsien on the part ol the House of Com mons that some chenge is required. The chief difference between the bill as amended and as it stood formerly, is that the assessors, who are to set as chairmen of election commit tees, ale to be permanently appointed like the judges, instead of Leing named <very session or every Parliament, and that they are to be paid 2,5001. instead of 2,000/. per annum. The fiat is a most material, improvement, for if the assessors were anpointed sessiomilly they would be sessienally reponsiitle to the domiaant party in the Scete, and that 'ircumstinot alone would dispose them to become po E ieal political partisans, and to favour the claims of those, wale ther petitioners or sitting members, whose opini „s were is favour Of the Administration of the day. If the selection and nomination of barristers for this duty were to be in the hands of the Speaker, as suggested in Mr. Charles Buller's original protosal, it would no doubt throw upon him a heavy and in some respects an invidious responsibility ; but we are - not by any m eans sere that this course wou l d not be preferable, notwith standing the fact that the Speaker is placed in the Chair by the supporters of the Minister for the time being when the vacancy occurs.. In his Bill ncyv before the House, Mr. C. Buller has taken a different view of the matter, and has not only made the situation of Assessor permatent from Session to Session and from Parliament to Parliamant, during good behaviour, but he has given the selection and appointment to the House at large. How this alteration will get rid of the objection of political partiality in the choice of Barristers we do not exactly sec. In cases of this kind we prefer indi vidual responsibility to the irresponsibility inseparable from an act done by an almost indefinite number. These Assessors, if impartially named, we look upon as the great recommen dation of Mr. C. Buller's measure. We think that barris ters duly qualified may be found, who will be willing to give up an uncertain practiac of perh pa considerably more than the fixed salary for the sake of the certain ernofument of 2,.5001. per aueum for the fulfihnent of the duties of an office of great importance and no little dignity. What we felt with regard to the Bill of last year was, that barristers to be paid only 2,0001. per annum, and whose situations might be taken from them at the caprice of the Minister of the day, would not possess the necessary weight and influence with members uniaily forming election Committees. So far, therefore, the change is for the better ; and, reckoning upon due legal attainments and that peculiarity oflatiowledge which belongs to the sill - jet, there seems every chance that the decision of election Committees, net merely finally upon the merits of petitions,bnt incidentally upon points arising is the course of their inquiries, would be rendered more uniform and more consonant with reason and justice. One great cause of the present multiplication of petitions is that decisions are not uniform—that one Committee decides one way and another another, so that parties have always a hope of overturning previous determinations. If a Com mittse last Session resolved that the registry . of an Irish caunty shall not be opened, and this ye r that it shall be opened, asd if adverse findings occur within the space of a couple of years upon such a question as the admis sion or non-admission of parish constables to vote, there can be no end to litigation, and no bounds to expenditure. It has not unfrequently happened that decisions in the very teeth of each other have been given in the same session. In some in stances this contrariety may have been occasioned by misap prehension or ignorence of the law, and unlearned Commit teemen, like unlearned Magistrates at Quarter Sessions, want a legal pilot upon whom they can rely to steer them safely be tween the strongly-enforced arguments of Counsel. So far Mr. C. Buller's Bill may be said to afford a remedy; but we think that the second part of his plan, which relates to the selection and appointment of a jury of Members, would not be an improvement upon the present mode, excepting inasmuch as the responsibility will be limited to five instead of being divided among eleven. We doubt, however, whether the smaller; number will not in most cases be as well content to bear the charge of political labis as the larger. Here we must be care el: we are treading upon tender ground ; but although the word ~ perjury" is forbidden by the late resolution of the House of Commons, and although it may be dangerous to talk of violating, or even of " trifling with oaths," we may assert, on the authority of Members of all parties, that poll tlcal bias has influenced (we do not say governed) the deci sions of not a few Election Committees. No Member whoi feels awe at the notion of a reprimand or a committal will ever again venture to use such a word as " perjury :" it will he marked in future as verbose . vetitum in the vocabulary of the Commons. The Tories denounce it with the same feels ing that urged Nell Gwynn's coachman to flog a passene ger for giving his mistress, while he was driving her, an offensive but highly appropriate designation. Nell enquirscl of the driter what had so enraged him, and he answered that the person he had so set crely chastised had called her ladyship what Othello in the fury of his jealousy calls Desdemona. " Never mind, Thomas (sold the unblushing Nell) —drive on ; it is of no consequence : you know very well that lem so." " Yes, Madam (returned the indignant Thomas), it is true enough ; hut for all that nobody shall call you so in my presence." It is exactly so with the Tories :an election Committee may prostitute itself to party, but woe to the man (unicts he be as powerful as Mr. O'Connell), who shall ever again venture to assert that it has been guilt ' ; of perjury ! To charge a Committee with havin g yielded to political bias is this very utmost that can be per mitted by Tory sensitiveness. Nell Ow.:,•nn's coachman was the ancient type of a modern Tory. The qu. , Alon therefore, is whether the plan recommended by Mr. C. Bailer will have any material effect in checking this practice. which, after all, is the great mis chief to his rem .•!ied. We fear not ; for the mode of selec tion of the give members is tie same as of the eleven, and it will be liege ta ail the same abuses. Canvassing to no down to the Ballot, in order to secure an advantage to the one party or to the other, will be continued, and eases will still be ac counted lost or gained, just as the majority, after reducing the list, shall be found to be one way or time other. Whether it will be possible to . prevail upon the House of Commons to re linquish the privilege it has asserted for more than two c,:ntu ries, of judging of matters of election, remains to be seen ; but we reoeat that impartial justice will never lat done, am! will never be expected by the public, until the Hente of Com miens ceases to be party, judge, and jury iu its own caae. Morning Chronicle. It would be as well to press Ministers a little closer now and then, for the sake of getting cut of a Government so very "squeezable" tome mere trustworthy causes than they seem willing to assign fur that continued pone of procrastinatioe, or do-nothingnes, w11,1o , .: they have already drawn so many quarers', or ra - ., ... tweivemouths', salary, for which no man alive can venture to affirm that the public has received, cr. ex pects to receive, the slightest particle cf return isi profitahic labour. Wu find, from Lord J. Russell'a words, what vas fully anticipated at the outset of the -session, irons the whole history of the Noble Lord's previous aehieveraents, and those of his meritorious colleagues, that the Church Lease Bill and the Irish Tithe Bill are to be came more what they have already been —tubs to the respective whales of Radi calism and Popery at either side of the water, and means of keeping what one of them at least was originally the means of seizlng—viz., the mal-administration and gross misgovernment of this degreded realm. On Thurs day the Secretary fur the Home Deaartment apprised the House of Commons that he should not be able to firing on before Easter a motion for the appointment of a Committee on Church leases, which he had promised (as what . has he nut proi;lised?) early in the session—not before Easter. The Irish Church Bill, indeed, on which we made acme ob servations it tho Times of Saturday, has become the subject of a formal notice by Lord J. Russell, who professes an inten tion of submitting a molten with regard to it in the course of the present week. This is the Bill of which we have pre sented Mr. O'Connell's version in the article above alluded to, and the mere introduction cf which (for its enactment into a law is, thank Heaven ! out of the question) will be registered by the Melbourne Cabinet as a clear acquittal of their promises to Parliament that the tithe quarrel should by them be " ad justed." That this phantom will, moreover, be received by O'Connell as a discharge in full of the Whig pledges to him self, we have no hesitation in believing. He has drawn the Bill for them, as he assures the public, and they have stopped - his mouth by accepting his draught. Both parties being con snious that the affair will go no further, as we suspect that the House of*Commens, and arc sure that the Lords, will dispo •e in no very ceremonious manner of a scheme so worthy of the source it springs from. The ditcarded of North De von will then p ut leis tongue in his cheek, congratulating himself that the Down ing-etrect concern is safe for yet a few weeks longer ; while O'Connell, with a half chuckle, half scowl, will sack s-..me more patronage, and say nothing at all about it. Thus is to be again performed the Irish tithe farce. This is to be got rid of for another session the engagement undertaken with so reutili solemn effrc.nterv, to tranquillize Ireland, by robbing the cataltlisned Chuich7aid dividing her spoils between Romish { testa and Protestant 'squires. Thus thrts the Palladium . cf .. 'big. Papist Government. Thus vanishes that much ling . -b r ig e to. Popery, and that fatal visitation upon the 4 040, P.-otcsiant cause and eler;yy, which was to redres by a single ten - stionathe wrones of 700 years, and to vindicate the ways of et. eternal justice by one overwheimmat crime. ' i “U 3 evaporates flint especial boon to Ireland, which Sir Robert Peel was ex pelled from power because he was too frank to hold out that which he was too honest a man to realize, but which the ' Whigs though certain t hat they could Lever execute, were base eneugh to promise. And en the non-perfor mftlwe of that pledge has Whiggery thriven for abou t three years. On the dexterous management of hopes and fears, and popular delusions arising f rom tint pledge, has Mr. Daniel O'Connell for three yearn fattened—on the alternate use of threats and fawning?, towards 'the Treasury has Nir. Daniel O'Connell succeeded so far as to cotiveet t h e negative quantity, the un f u lfill e d engagement o f the Whig Mini4ers, into the positive qu ant i ty ( or ra th er e no r mity) of corrupt pa tronage, as his equivalent, which he punctually exacted, and exacts to the present hour. Mark, then, amidst the practical defeats of their threatened enterprises, what has been the pro gressive theory of rapine on the part of these worthless men. They bad heretofore been satisfied with proposing that the clsrgy should have a rent-charge in lieu of tithe, and now it turns out that they are to have pensions in hen of rent-charge —pensioes during the O'Cennell pleasure—such crumbs a; may fall annually from the table of tle Committee of wet s and means, but swept away by Mr. Joseph Hume. on one side, and on the other by 'Mr. Daniel O'Con-i nett; while. the latter ectsenage, degrading the Protestant, clergy nit% precarious peesioners, exalts the Rorniih. priest-, hood into landed proprietors, by turning orrr to therm as the 'ears of a permanent establishment beyond the reach of any Lion in the House of Commons, these glebes and other ter- oriel possessions which he will have extorted from the, inis,ers of the Protestant Church. We may guess Wore : nd how likely such a project is to succeed, or to he thought otherwise than with indignant scorn by any but the. Papist ho has himself prepared, it. As for the wretched Ministers ho are deemed to bring it forward, their base consolation is , dr fore-knowledge of its inevitable failure. - Here, then, ill pass the fourtli, Session of Parliament without even the ost minute advance cn the part of the Mell:ouree Ministry owa - ds the completion of that one measure, the imminent d instantaneous necessity for which was the single mo el Live alleged by the Whig faction composing that Ministry, l and by the democratic and Papist factions supporting it, for' driving Sir Robert Peel from office so long ago as in April, 1835. They find they are not strong enough fur a se rious grapple even with the worried and persecuted Church of Ireland, which has at length found a powerful, though tardy, protection in the laws and tribunals of the realm. Is it much wonder, then, that an open contest with the mighty Church of England should appal these tricky rind feeble men, and that they should strive by every rnrieuvre within reach of them to shuffle off the day of battle with such an enemy ? Lord John Russell accordingly, instead of pro ceeding, at once, as he had promised, towards the settlement of the Church lease question, which contains materials fer no small alarm to assailants of a calibre like that of the Noble Lerch- has given notice that his motion for a Committee on the subject canrot come on till after Easter I What next? When is that Committee to report ? Why, if Lord John Rus sell's wish shalt prevail, the report wilt be called for the day after the Greek calends. Our lives for it, if the friends of the Church in Parliament badger the Noble Lord out of his skin, he will not suffer the Church Lease Committee to re port within the present session. Our lives for it, the unfer , getful victim of the Bishop of Exeter will writhe, and roll, and struggle himself into convulsions before he dares to initiate a motion fon transferring any surplus which may arise from a re-arrangement of Bishops' leases to the use of Dissenters, or to interests in their nature separate from those of the Church of England. The Noble Lord by this time knows his ground too well for the voluntary indulgence of such untoward under takings. We shall see. —Times. The Hon. Member for Leeds, Mr. E. Baines, last week gave notice that he would, to-morrow, in the Committee of the whole House on the First-fruits and Tenths Bill, move for instruction; to the Committee " to take into consideration the propriety of abolishing the first-fruits of the clergy in England and Wales, and for the more effectual rating the better collec tion of the tenths, applicable to the maintenance of the poorer clergy." This motion the Hon. Member for Leeds has post poned to the end of the week. The question, however, will he brought on to-morrow (Tuesday) by a motion of Mr. James to the following effect :—" Return from the Treasurer of Queen Anne's bounty of all the moneys he has received daring the same period as profits of vacaet ecclesiastical digni iies and beneficies, and of the manner in which such moneys have been appropriated, distinguishing the dates and persons from whom these receipts have come." The combined effect of the motion of Mr. James, and the instruction of Mr. Baines will show that, without looking to such a newly-created fend as the Chancellor of the Exchequer's last year's Bill for. the supersession of Church-rates proposed, there is another: fund which may be fairly devoted to the proper diffusion. of religious instruction; and to the fitting remuneration of the working body of the clergy. Nay, it would do more than this : if properly controlled and appropriated, it would cover the entire expense of the supersession of the Church-rates.e We refer to Queen Anne's Bounty-fund—the subject of both motions, that of the Hon. Member for Leeds, and of the Hon., Member for Carlisle. Nothing is requisite but honesty in the great functionaries of the Church Establishment. Theys have nolhing to do but to fulfil the spirit of the Act of Par-i liement at the Restoration, and confirmed subsequently in the time of Queen Anne. That Act requires that every Bishop should pay the first fruits and tenths of their incomes into the Exchequer, for the purpose of augmenting the livings of the poorer clergymen, and for the more respectable maintenance of them who really and solely supply the " bread of instruction to the myriads famishing" for it, which Bishop Philpott's zealot imagination has conjured up. According to the return of the Ecclesiastical Revenue Commissioners, the annual reve nue of the State Church functionaries is 2,000,0001., allowingt for the small livings discharged from paying the first-fruits and tenths by Queen Anne's Act. Now , a tenth' part of the above sum (the tenth contemplated by the Act) is 200,0001. per annum, and the first fruits would produce a suns nearly equal to it. Here we have 400,0001 per annum—a sum which would bee adequate to supersede Church-rates and provide a surplus of 150,0001. for the ample supply of religious instruction, and for' the adequate remuneration, of the working clergy. Thai reader wilt be surpri , ecl to learn what is actually 1;a1•1 by th Church hi discharge of this just debt. The average su paid for first-fruits and tenths is no more than 15,000/. p :annum. The " famishing myriads" are thus robbed of th " bread of religious instruction" to tlrr a nouLt of 375,00 per annum. By what machinery is this effected? By a finan cial slight of hand, of which any individual in private life would be utterly ashamed. The lien on the ecclesiastical in come is paid in the currency of Henry VIII., but the income is received in the currency of Victoria I. The dignitaries of the Church Establishment thus blow hot and cull with the same breath. Let them give and take wiili fair play. Let them pay their'deb:s in the same . currency in which they re ceive their incomes. This common honesty demands. Morning Advertiser. The Ministerial Journals are very naturally displeased with the majority of 65 in the House of Lords who rejected the " bit-by-bit" amendment of the Reform Bill introduced by the authors of that measure, and known by the title of the Parlia mentary El, ctors Bill. Ministers and their adherents feel that this decision of their Lordships is a disagreeable sort of set-off against the majority cf 29 placemen in the other House of 1 3 51 liament who, on the morning of the same day, came to the magnanimous resolution not to vote themselves out of office. If it can be shown that all the pretences upon which the Parliamentary Elect ors Bill was founded were false and fraudulent nothing more can be required to prove that every thing connected with its origin, progress, and fate was, in natural order, that Ministers noted in pin nuance of their proper vocation in introducing, the House of Commons in adopting, and the House of Lords in rejecting, it. Now, we confidently affirm that the fraud and falsei:ood of every one of these pre tences may be clearly established. It was pretended , in the first place, that the Conservative proposal t+ abolish the tax en the admission of freemen into corporations naturally suggested anal fully warranted the demand of sonic c :Ire:Toed:rig neon to the householder class of voters. The persons who resorted to this argument must have known that there was no analogy or resemblance whatever between the two cases, the similarity or rather the identity of which they effected to assume. The proper equivalent for the house holder class of voters to receive in consideration of the remis sion of a tax accorded to the freemen class would h ive been not the questionable privilege of getting deeper into the tax collector's books, but the riAlui_nion te ' a proportionate extent offame 'of the taees upon the re griller paymsnt of which their franchise had been toede t.) thpend. And what beco:nes of this argument, upon which Ministers at first pretended to rest their measure, if, in point of fact, the householder class of voters Lad already, since the enactment of the Reform Bill, been relieved from the only species of taxation in any manner affecting the franchise, and were still in the course of receiv ing further relief in a degree fir exceeding the measure of re lief solicited on behalf of the freemen ? When it is recollected that the house tax had been remitted since the passing of the Act which made a certain degree of punctuality in the payment of the assessed taxes and peer rates essential to the acquisition and preservation of the suffrage, and when it is also recollected that the New Poor-law, whatever other effects it may have produced, had at least, if there be any faith in the reports of Poor-law Commissioners, effected a great and general dimi nution of the assessments for the relief of the poor, it would seem impossible that men of common sense or ordinary in tegrity should have inferred the reasonableness of permitting household voters to be perpetually in arrear in the payment of the taxes and the rates, already mitigated as we have seen, from the applicatiOn to Parliament fur the remission of the tax chargeable upon freemen en an occasion which occurs to no man more than once in his life. Anything more absurd than this would be difficult to imagine, but those who see in it no thing worse than absurdity, have a greater fund of charity than we wish to claim. Then it is pretended that the allowance of a longer arrears of taxes to the household voter would not have militated against the principle of the Reform Bill. But what is the principle of the Reform Bill ? We suppose that what deter mines the class of society to which shall belong the right of electing the popular branch of a mixed Legislature must be deemed one of the essential principles of a measure intended to model or remodel a representative Constitution. Now, it is admitted by the advocates of taxes in arrear that the Parliamentary Electors Bill is only desirable inasmuch as it would increase the aggregate number of voters by the ad mission into that chats of a multitude of persons either so poor as to find it inconvenient to pay their rates and taxes at the time specified by the Act as it stands, or so indifferent to the possession of the franchise as to t hink it riot w orth obtainin g at the expence of ordinary punctuality--a multitude of persons, in other word, less qualified by their circumstances, charac ters, or habits than the rest of their fellow-citizens for the im portant office of selecting the national Representatives, and intended, therefore, by the Reform Bill to be excluded from that office. Such is the kind of reasoning, for refusing .o listen to which writ :Ts in the service of a defeated and de-- graded, an inconsistent and profligate Administration, p esume to censure the House of Lerds. Again, it is pretended that the House of Lords, in refusing its sanction to the Ministerial project for altering the Reform Bill, virtually admits that a measure which while under discussion it steadily and vigo rously opposed, is so excellent and perfect a measure as to be incapable of improvement. The absurdity of this pretence is an manifest that it is extremely difficult to believe it can have imposed even upon those by whom it is advanced. It would apply to a Bill establishing Universal Suffrage and the Vote by Ballot, or to a Bill repealing the Reform Act altogether, quite .; well as it applies to the Parliameatary Electors Bill. The Conseeeatiye party in both Houses of Parliament, oppose any tinkering pf the Reform Bill—not iwcatts^ 1 thdy think, even now, that that measure was a good and wise, much less a perfect, one—but, because tlney do not aril* that any tinkering it can now un dergo, is likely to improve it, because, with all its imper fections, it is gradually working, as any other measure on the same subject must have done, towards a wholesome assirnil4- TRE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY . , MARCH 12, 1838. ticm with the Constitution, the priticples, the t::mper, and the habits of British scciety ; because they will not so far yield to the temptations of discrediting a measure which they disap rovc,l and opposed r.s to assist in interrupting or retarding a proce, , s of which they alone of the statesmen of Gr:.at Britain undcrstc,nd and appreciate the vain a.id becaue they deem it, in the Li . r . .;hcst degree, pernicious to the well-being of a State ant its institulions . should, ty th , ..evil precedents of cont , nual mutation, assume the ch;,ract.:r of hopeless and cureless irritability, and be degraded into the cheap and un valued toys of accident or passion.--Morning Post. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (Continued from our First Edition of Saturday.) EVESIIAM. Several witnesses were called, but faiLd in proving any act of gene al agency the pal-t. of Mr. Best. The Coutruhtee adjourned :.,horrly before four. READING. The vu.ites oF Manford Nott, Thomas Woodley, and George Harris, were struck off by the petitioners. Chart:-s John Butler was the.i objected to by the sitting Member. The Committee postponed the decision to give the petitioner's Counsel time to bring evidence as to the voter having quitted his residence before the 31st of July. The Committee adjourned at 20 ininutes past four. DREADFUL SUICIDE of an ASSAS-qN An extraordinary trial took in France last week. On the lith of November last, according to the report in Le Droll, a Mr. Lambert, a farmer, in the village of Chevres, was sit ting at breakfast with his servants. A neighbour, named E.neraud came in to ask the loan of a gun, and like:vise of a double.barrciled gun, to shoot some birds in his garden. The gun being loaded, was at once given to him ; he no sooner had it than he aimed at Lambert, and lodged one of the charges in his face. The servants who witne;sed this strange scene attempted to secure Emeraud, who ran away, and tried to blow rut his own brains with the second charge; he however failed in his atzempt, though he inflicted a terrible wound in his face. Hav:rig reached his own hnuse he was see❑ to go up to the roof with a vier; of throwing himself off, but was then secured and confined in his room. He then took a pen and wrote down a confession of his crime ; he stated the cause of the dreadful act to be a suspicion he entertained that Lambert, fire years before, had caused a prostitute at Angouleme to write a letter to his daughter to induce her to come and lead a life of prostitution. His suspicion became confirmed, and the accused, on hearing one day Lambert's father-in-law ask him if Emeraud's daughter was gone, to which he replied no, but she soon will go—fiaim that time he felt he must avenge his honour and that of his child. The accused produced tire letter that had been sent to h:s daughter, 'but Lambert positively deniad all knowledge of it. The case came on for trid on the 15th of February. A plea of insanity was attempted, but the testi mony of Dr. Maury only went to prove that the prisoner la boured under excessive nervous irritability. Emeraud having been taken into the jury-room, whilst some preparatory busi ness was going on in court, seized an opportunity to rush to a window, which he opened and threw himself headlong into the street, literally smashing his skull on the stones, and leaving the brains completely bare. HONOUR IS MY MOTTO. Le Droit has the following humorous report : Giguet—Mr. President, have the goodness to listen to me, if you please; it is I who complain. .President—What do you complain about ? Giguet—l must tell you that I have the misfortune of being very short-sighted. Punker—lf you are low-sighted you can sae the ground well enough. It must be your own fault when you tread upon people's feet. Besides, my father on his death-bed— Gigue.t—Oh, yes 1 but 1 appeal against your way of de manding justice. President—What has the accuQed done you ? Giguet—Having the mi:,fortune of being very short sighted, I daily find myself exposed to innumerable disa greeables. Thus, last week, finding myself at a coffee-house on the boulevard, I nearly made my way through a large plate glass, mistaking it for the door. Punker—And did you break the glass? Ciiguet—No, but I broke my nctse. Punker—That's lucky, it's net so expensive. President—l hope you are not going to relate all the blenders your malady causes you tb commit ; only state the facts connected with your complaint. Punker—l don't care; I have my justification ready. My father on his death-bed said to me —:--- President—Let the witness explain himself first, and then ycu may justify yourself if you can. Giguet--"ris all owing to my bad sight. I clumsily walked twice on the foot of this gentleman when were stand ing in a line to get in at the theatre. The second time he clenched his fist and sent it right into my right eye; or, at least, so I was told, fur I did not see anything, both on ac count of my infirmity and the complete state of blindness I was in through the - fist of this stranger. Dunker—l had a father who always said to me : my boy— President to Giguet—Was the blow you received violent ? D;:1 you feel it for several days? Gig, , uet—l have heard some of my acquaintance say that for a week my right eye was much larger than the other. The strange part of the business is, that being larger, I saw less with it less than before. My doctor, whose certificate I now produce, says that was quite natural ; for my part, I find it very strangn President, to-the accused—Let us see, Punker stand up. How caate you to commit so brutal an act on a person who, w:tinait any intention, and in a crowd, trod upon your fo )t ? Punker—lt was not his intention did me mischief, it was his foot ; and so my father, when on his death btA— Giguet—Be pleased to observe that I Ives ready to make him every kind of excuse—he had but to speak. Pituk,,r—Excuses do not cure the pain.; 'tis better to re turn it. Giguet—But, my dear stranger , the pai n I y not be equal to a blow from your fist. Had y ou been contented with giving me a slap I should have said no more about it. Punker—l offered you reparation with a'swo rd, or no matter gave o u could what ; you preterred coming before a Justice- That is not shat my father, when on the point of death— Sir Giriet—l had not the honour of knowing yo ur father, ; but it seems to me that to repair a blow from a fist with a blow from a sabre is rather a homwopathic process —that's n'Y opinion. Punker--I am a friend to hornwopathy—what have you to say against hommupathy ? Gignet—Nothing - , nothing. it's like putting out the good eye of a man Who blind on one side, to restore the bad one. Punker—Certainly, certainly. _ _ to my father's dying admonitio3. Giguet—Pray, Sir, waz your father a homn,opathic doctor? Punker. No, he was a brave soldier in his time. When en the point of death he sent for me to come near his bed, and said to me in tears, " My Son, honour's whole maxim is very short—Swear before me that you will follow it till you die." " I swear, Father !" which I did shedding tears al,o. Then he sari to me, " You have a foot, my boy ; d o nt you ever let holy tread upon it." Thus spoke my fathe r. The punctilLus Pucker was condemned to pay a fine of 25 francs ( I/. ) For my part, I over- attend RE-ORGANISATION OF THE STAGE In a letter upon the French stage for the last fifty years, addressed to the Count tie Nlontalivet, Minister for the Home Department, by M. Alexander Duval, of the French Academy, are found the followina. articles of a Miniqerial decree, which the veteran author has wittily imagined, for the re-organization of the stage : Art. 3. The French stage, being intended to form the completion of a liberal education, will only admit pieces, which by their extent, poetry, and morality, may be calcu lated to develope the feelings that characterize an honest man, and a good citizen. Art. 6. No one being ignorant that, for the last twelve years, no piece has been fairly judged by the public, no free admission shall henceforth be given—the author alone shall obtain a box for himself and his family. Art. 7. An enlightened public not existing at this time, an attempt shall be made to create one, by granting two hundred admissions to men of merit, whose means do not put it in their power to enjoy theatrical representations. These persons are to be selected among men of letters, junior professors at the University, among those who have obtained prizes, and among all those whose productions have been crowned in the course of the year Their judgment may have some influence on. that of the public, as was formerly the case with the en lightened amateurs of the stage. Art 8. The Reading Committee shall be composed of five-and -twenty members, chosen among the writers who no longer work for the stage, among the actors and men of the world, who may be able to give authors useful hints, with re gard to correct social practices. Art. 9. There will be, every year a prize of 10,000 francs fur the best tragedy or comedy, in verse, - in five acts. This prize shall only hr given two years after the representation, and tii . on a written judgment of the French Academy. There will be inferior prizes for works in prose, draatas or comedies. Art. 12. A new law shall be presented to the Chambers, to secure a duration of copyright to the family for fifty years after the death of the author. Constilutiohnel, Feb. 17. THE JEW'S TOMB.-In.a retired and secluded corner of a meadow, close by the town of Chesterfield. is erected a tomb, neatly composed of bricks, surmounted by a hands , me stone slab, to the memory of a Jew, oho was in terred there in the year 1792. The stone bears the followiog inscription:—Michael Solo - mans, a Jew, a faithful servant at the Angel Inn, Chesterfield, for upwards of thirty years, was 'nterred here at his own request, Opt. 23, 1792, aged 75. This stone was erected by his friends to his mernory._D o „. caster Gazette. At the head and foot of this tomb grew, a few years ago, two handsome poplar trees, which were planted at the time of Solomon's burial, but are now cut down, which act, to say the !east of it, showed a want of taste in those who removed them. The Hull Observer, in some observations on the Marylebone election say., " We are certain, that, at every bye election in every large borough, the same tactics will be adopted, and with the same result, by the extensive section or Liberals who firmly believe that the Melbourne Ministry have deceived them, since they have thought proper to proscribe the Ba39t.'? THE PERSIAN PRINCES IN LONDON. The following description of the effect produced on the three Persian Prince= by review of the Household Troops, is taken fr:m M. Baillie Frazer's Narrative of their Residence in Lo. don. . It intn-a be nndcrstood that the Princes were pro 3cients in the Persian mode of warfare:— " One of, the first acts of attention on the part of Sir G. 0. was to introduce them to Mrs. W. L., a lady of the world of fashion, who, on the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, nave at her house near Grosvenor gate an elegant de jeune, and ... ho was kind enough to invite tile Princes to view the grand evicw given on that day in Hyde-park, from that command ng situation. Nothing could have been more happily ar anged. From the top of Mr. W. L.'s Ifou.se the whole field 'as visible, and every evolution of the troops might be seen ; while, after the review was over, we had a brilliant show of the officers in their gay costumes, who came in succession to pay their compliments lo the numerous assemblage of ladies [mho filled the rooms above. " There were, as I understood, nearly five thousand men of il'the Guards and llowelield Troops on the field; such men, in point of figure, dress and appointments, horses included, as probably Europe could not equal, certainly not surpass ; and the rapid precision with which eve-y movement and manoeuvre was performed was admirably calculated to strike and astonish the Persians, who though accustomed to military displays of a very different description, could yet appreciate the perfection which they witnessed here. I What sungers I' (fortified stoc kades or bulwarks),'said they, when they infantry formed their impregnable squares, and stood - prepared to receive cavalry. ' One would say that each sunyer was a solid mass; not a foot nor an arm is out of place. See ! it is -a white line and a red line, with the steel glittering, above. Ah, look I they kneel, they fire—barrakillah . 1 barrakillah ! admirable l' " As for Tirneur, he was quite unable to contain himself. He stood with flushed cheek, tlishing eye, and outstretched neck, like a bird on the wing, following every movement as if he would have precipitated himself down among the perfor mers. ' Al;, well done, well done I' exclaimed he, as the Horse Guards made a splendid ehrrge ; " thse fellows will do the business. But what do they stop for?' continued he, coking blank, as the whole drew up at the proper place, quite forgetting that it was not a charge in earnest. 'Ah I look at these horses,' said he again, as two or three horses, with empty saddle;, ran across the plain in a very business like style ; • their riders have got shot now (gold khourdun(l)l' But when the light cavalry took to skirmirh lig with the retreating artillery, and harassing them, se./an les reyles, without closing, he lost-all patience. 'ilinanierdiur _Ali, cowards I' exclaimed lie; ' why don't you charge at once like men? Charge ye—and the guns are taken !' " In a little while the whole body of flying artillery swept by at speed, a splendid sight. ' What do you think of that' said some of the bystanders. ' Ah, Piderislt be suzundl' re turned he with a shake of the head ; ' may their fathers be roasted l we know too much of these concerns, to our cost. These were the things that Lindsay (Sir Henry Bethune Lindsay) had when he met us near Komaishah ; and when we were galloping up with our horsemen, and thought we were carrying everything before us, he stopped short all at once and blew us to the devil.' The elder prince was more collected, and confined him s‘.lf, for the most part to moderate exclamations of praise ; or, if questioned as to his opinion of the beauty of such or such an evolution, he would say, ' it was perfection ; could not he better.' But when at length, after some heavy firing both of artillery and infantry, with a beautifully-sustained dis play of file-firing from the latter, the smoke blew away, dis closing one long and perfect lino of troops, as steady as a rock flanked by the ter; ible batteries that had just been thundering, he was quite surprised out of all his moderation ; and, after a. few most expressive ejaculations, he turned to me and said, a Wullah ! Saheb Fraser, the horsemen of Iran are the best in the w orld, as you know well ; but if there were a hundred thousand of them of them here on the spot, they could not touch that line—that line 1 what could touch it ?' The re view was over, the show at an end; yet still he stood gazing, till at length the movement of those around him woke him from a sort of trance, which no doubt had as much to do with the past as the present. He heaved a deep sigh, and said, as ire p a ssed on to descend, ' What are a hundred balls or operas no this ?' HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—Thursday information of the following daring highway robbery, and atrocious attempt at m urder, was received at the diff2rent metropolitan police offices and station-houses. On Sunday night, between half past nine and ten o'clock, as a young man, named George Lowudes, living as under groom in the service of John Wells, E sq ., of Moor Park, Surrey, was returning home from Farn ham, he was attacked on the high road, shortly after he had left that town, by two men, whose faces were covered with black crape or handkerchiefs, who seized him and demanded his money. He told them he had none, and threatened to give an alarm if they did not let him go. One of them then knocked him down, and placed a pistol at his head, threaten ing to blow his brains out if he made any further noise, but he still continued calling out " Murder !" as loud as he was able, until one of the villains kneeled on his neck with all his might, Iyhile the other rested his whole weight on the lower part of his stomach.. They then cut from his fob a doublo-cased silver watch, with which, and his livery-hat, they effected their escape. the was soon afterwards discovCred in a state of insensibility by some persons who had been attracted to the spot by his cries, by whom be was conveyed home. One of the villains was rather tall, and dressed in a dark jacket, the other was shorter, and had on a white smock-frock. - . • AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.— Friday a young man named Thomas Cook, in the occa sional employ of :Messrs. Tucker, the corn and coal-mer -chants of Is:eNorth, uhilst nolo .ding coals at the Wharf, having can ied about three sacks, suddenly fell down dead, without uttering i single word. Mr. Day, the highly re spec:able surgt - on of the place was immediately sent for, whcn he declared it to be the result of secret internal disease. He was supposed to have been in a decline, but remarked to hs cousin that morning, that he felt better, or more fit for work. 1-k was removed home, where his body awaits the co ronet-a' inquest. At one of the lodging-houses in this town, a man and his son recently took up their abode. The son being very 'IL and in the agonies of death, his father was induced to try the powers of a potent spell, which, he was assured, would restore his dying son to health and strength. He accordingly procured a livin« bird, split it suddenly down the middle of the body with a sharp knife, and applied the several parts, still moving with life, to the soles of his dying son's feet. fully ex pectitig to behold his instantaneous, restoration.—Ten Towns' Messen g er. A monk of the order of St. Basil, as we learn from Cragieviz, in Servia, has recently discovered a most valuable collection of historical manuscripts in the monastery of Monte negro. 11.ving been ordered to inspect the vaults wider the convent church, he discovered that the numerous coffins depo sited in them were all broken to pieces except one, which was ia a perfect state of preservetion. Having mentioned the fact to the superior, the fraternity went in procession to the vault, and, having broken the coffie, found it tilled with papers in an excellent state of preservation, and rolled in oil-cloths. Upon examination, the papers were found to be chronicles in the different Sclavonian languages, embracing a period from the time of the first invasion of the Sclavernans, in the country along the Danube, to the yer 1721. They contain histories of Wallachia, Moldavia, Servia, details of the crusades in the East, &c. Prince Milosch has purchased tins collection for 5,000 ducats, (about 4,5001 ), and has employed his secretary to examine and class the documents according to their dates. They will be published, and will throw, it is expected, great light on the histories of the Sclavonian people, and other Eu ropean nations.— Galignani's Messenger. A MODERN GIOVANNE.—An American paper gives tile following account of a modern Giovanni, who bids fair to he as renowned as the mighty " Don," if fate does not consign him to the Penitentiary. Having been put in gaol for marrying thirteen wives, he made his escape, and was seen three or four days :afterwards by a gentleman. The gentleman, anxious to secure the - reward for his appre hension, invited him into his house to dinner, and then slyly slipped out in pursuit of a constable ; but great was his ho-ror on his return to find that the culprit had absconded with his wife ! PA ItTY.—Owing to the disgraceful conduct of the whi g , no less than to the nefarious proceedings of the Tories at the last election, the two factions are so nearly balanced in t h e present Parliament, that nn measures of real benefit to the pe ople can be expected. It is, therefore, not surprising that week after week passes away, in which nothing else is done save in the way of useless contentions, bickerings, and strife. —Suffolk Chronicle. FALSE QUANTITY.—Most persons are aware that our law proceedings still retain many of the Latin terms, in which language the whole was formerly carried on. Among these is a process known by the term nolle prosequi, the e in the latter word being pronounced short. Not long since, a Learned Barrister, not educated at Eton—where a false quan tity is held in the same light as a petty larceny—was on the last.day of term boring the Court of Exchequer with a l e ngthened harangue upon a trifling matter, the burden of his speech being the propriety of entering a tulle prosequi, in variably pronouncing the e in the latter word long. Mr. Baron A--, whose clasical ear could bear thi s P r i sc i an out rage no longer, at length good humour, dly interrupted the Learned Gentleman, by saying " Really Mr. --, there can b e n o occasion to lengthen anything unnecessarily on the last day of term." A most painful excitement has been caused by the continued and unaccountable absence of Mr. Maskell, currier. I t a ppears that Mi. Maskeil left his lime oa Monday last, for Hereford. where he was noticed about noon ; lie had with him a-large sum in notes and cold. Since that time he has neither been seen nor heard of, aed the worst fears are enter tained for his safety.—llereford Times. 00 Tuesday last a man named Whiting, a deserter ' f rom the 7th Fusileers, who was confined in Boston Gaol, a dopted the following singular mode of disqualifying himself for a military life, although he will probably he punished with transportation :—He contrived to rub the iron hoop on his kit on a stone until it was as sharp as a knife ; lie then placed the first joint of his forefinger on the edge of the hoop, and struck it sharply with a sweeping brush, which, however, had not the desired effect, He again laid his finger in the same position as before on the hoop, and repeated the blow. with increased force, by which he succeeded in amputating the first joint cf hi s finger, Mr. Coupland, surgeon to the gaol, was sent for, but Whiting declared that he was -resoluecl to be a soldier eo longer, and that, if the parts were sown together, hp woulti tear Lhern apart again as soon as the doctor quitted him. Not withstanding the roughness of the instruments employed, the ampUtation was performed as smoothly as if a surgeon bad done it.—Boston Herald, PIaCES OF CANALS,DOCE: STOCKS. ASSURANCE COMPANIES,eze. C.C. fitc. .LONDON, FRIDAY, AIARCA 9. Number Dividend Price of pt.sr CANAL:). p are per ihares. Austin. Paid. Sh 1,766 7 net c. ,- ,:nt. Ashton and Oldham.... A vera g e 1,7 1 . Ist. 9h. 125 1,082 44 Ashby,le-le.Zouch Average 1131. sh. 65 1,2C0 • 1,003 " 5!. Bre,cknoek and - Abetgav curly 150 sh. 104'. 8,000 1-IGsh. 91 Gs. Birmingham, 1-16th share ........8,-:. Fs 711. 220 4.000 Ditto and Liverpool .1 unct... 1 3 01 . ; fr. 100 pd 25 600 31. B ridgewater and Taunton ....1001.•sh. all pd 64 400 4/ Chelmer and Blackv.ater lOO/. sh. 102 500 40/ Coventry 'flo/ sh. 745 4.545 Croydon 2,0601 41. o<. Dudley 3 600 144. Derby 1004 sh. 13 41/.125. 4tl.prl 33 % 20,0 , 10 4 per cent, Danube and M‘yne 3,5751 2/. Ellesmere and Chester Average 123/. s,ll. 77 231 461. Erev'ash ... t;if. sh. ITO 1,297 2=l. Forth and Ciyde Average 4.(-Vg . 7 65. ,a. 580 .1 1,600 • 124 Grand Junction 1 , 0/. sb. •Ili) 2,849 h 11. Grand Union 1001. sh 25 1500 Grand Surrey -0,000!. 41. percent. Ditto (or',;lional) Lrgur I , . 7 1 if ) a 1,1196 Grand Western " (CO 131.121. Pd. Gl2.raergan,hirc, Average cos', 1 .72/. 13'.4, , ?lit) 749 10 1 . Grantham 1504 Al, - 902 6,238 2/. Os. Huriderstik '1 Average 571. Gs. rd. sh. 37 100 Kensington 10 11 all pd. 10 2 5,.38 11. ss. Kennet i nci Avon, Average 1391. 181.100.5 h :-.6 2,4971 244 Leeds and Liverpool • 1041 sh, tOO 5451 131. Leicester l4O/. .h 22.5 1,897 61. Os. Leicester an 4 Nort h ;wait , . en... Ave r :3/. :its. 91 2.400 10/. Monmouthshire.. 1001. sh. 20: 150 104 Melton Mowbray ;001 ?h. 200 500 251. Mersey and Irwell !901. sh. 565 3.04(0 11. 10s. Macclesfield li.4 i sh. all pd. 52 247 17/. Neath 1004 sh. 325 1,786 301. Oxford 2,400 51. Peak Forest Avn.ge about 741. sh. 104 1,418 12s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. !15.8d. sh. 16 5,669 6/. per cent. r:ochdale Average 8,54 sir, 11 1 500 81. Shropshire 1',51. sh. 1:18 800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 1501. sh. 154 3,6001. 41 p^r cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2/. 10s. sh. 11; 700 401. Stafford and Worcester 500 91. Shrewsbury 125/, sh. 280 300 91. Stourbridge ' 3,647 21. 0;. Stratford.A.n. Av • ti... Average 79/. Os, td. sh. 50 633 151. Swansea ";Id.sh. :4, , , 3,762 11. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av. :i:7,1. ;h. 27 2,601 pt. 12/. 101. Treat and Mersey, i share 1004 sh 50:, 8.149 .000.711. 151. 1,00045 h. Warwick a.rd Birmingham lOOl, sh '265 950 lit. Warwick and Napton lOOl. mr. 2f.;0 6,000 4/.os. Worcest a' mut Birmingham...A /.8,. so 7)),, 5,000 235. Wilts art, Beefs .. Average 671. 10s. &I ;di. 22 800 31. Wyrley and Essington 1251. sh 15 .2:rt W i s b eac h 995 It. Wey and Arun • 1104 sh. `;2! DOCKS. 1,600& j 3p. c Commercial.... 1,06515 h tool. h. • 5 498,667 g/. 6 per ct. East India 3,232,3101/. 50s. p.ct. London Ditto hunts 1,380,0001. 41/. p. ct. West India 2,204 2/. 19s. Bristol 68,324/. 5!. par cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts 1,352,75'2 5 percent. St. Kathatitie ~took I.'l 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years 991 Shoreham I-Tibour „ .... Deptford Pict' -, ,1. sh. 20% pd 1001 BID DO Ls. - 1,6,0 Ifs. Hammersm , ti . 50/. sh. 221 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 031 . 2 5. 80 . sh. 2 1700 1/. 15s. Ditto, New, ef 71 per cent. 'O/.81). 14 5,000 Waterloo 5,000 18s. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. ... 6Ol. pd 19 5,000 16s. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 61 60,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bond 1 1 18 5,848 17s Vauxhall Av ,, raqe 70/. 11)s. 3d. sit. Id ASSURANCI ,- . COMPAN:ES. 2,000 3/10s Albion 500/. sh. 50/. pd 8) 50,000 / 5 1M c i en , L l Alliance,British& Foreign 100/: sh. 103'. pd 131 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine • 100/. sh. 5/. 1,0 6 , 4 21,000 IL per sh. Atla' 1,200 ash 5/. Birmingham Eire 250/. sh. 55/. pd 1671 20,000 41 per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 42 12,000 6/. per cent. British Commercial 50/. sl4. 5/, pd C 1 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical, Metli , :al,&c. Lite, ICO/. sh. 2/10s pd 4 4,000 2/ lOs County 1001 sh. 10/. pcl 42 20,000 ss. Eagle 5O/. sh. Si. ptl 5 i ~.,,,,,r per cent. 11000!. sit. 2504 pd 375 Economic Lilt `"'" land 30/ bs.3 2,271 225. per cent. European Li..: "0' sh. all pd 22 50,030 2s. Ditto, New "Oh sh. 2/. pd I',l 1,000,0001. 71. per ct. Glebe Stock 1501 20,000 51. Guardian lOO/. sit. 2711 pd 341 40,000 Os. (id. Hope 2,400 5/. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 500/ sh. 507. pd 1263 7,500 9s. Imperial Life.. 100/. sit. 10!. pil 10 13,458 4/. per cent. Indemnity Miaine 110/. sh. Si. pd 20 2,020 31 10s Kent Fire 50/. sh. all 140 82 3/. Ditto Life 79 10,000 16s. Law Life 1001. sh. 10/. pd 251 5,00 u 10s. London, Fire 251. sh. 12/. 10s. p:1 ii 3,900 105. London, Ship 251 sh. 12/. 10s. pd 16 30,000 51. per cent. Palladium Lae 50/. sh. 2/. pd 218 s otl 50,000 41. per cent. Protestor File 9.01. sh. 21. pd 17, 00 2,500 I/. Provident Lite lllO/. sh. 101. p 0 20 - 100,000 ss. Rock Life 20/. sh. 11. pd 69 149,220/ 51. per cent. Royal Exch•inge -Stork- 225,1 1 6,000 5 per cent. University Lilo. lOO/. sh. Si. pd 54 50,000 4 per cent. United King tom Life 21. pd JOINT STUCK BANKS ~,25,000 8 percent. Agric. and Comm. of Ireland 25/. sh. 10/. pd 14 5,0110 A ustrala.:ia VV. sh. 401. pd 62 10,000 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 5ll. O. 10/. pd 13 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank . 5O/. sh. 5/. pd hi, 0,000 5 per cent. London and Westminst 'r -.100/ sh. 201. pd t", 3,000 4 per cent. Lancastor......... ....... ... ........ WU sh. .01. pd 00 25,000 Liverpool • 1001 sh. 10/. pd 20 50,000 73 per cent Manchester and Liverpool} 100/. sh. 15/ pt. 1 ' 2' Discount 20,010 7 per cent. Manchester 100/. sh. 25/. pd 2 20,000 Provincial Bank of 1 reland 100/. sh. 25/. p 0 0 20,f 00 National Bank of Ireland 5 'l. sh. 171/. pd 1 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. -lOU oh. 33/. pd 1 !0,000 Gloucestershire 5O/..h. 10/. pd 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire ' 5O/. 8h . 5/. !I GAS LIGHT AND CUBE COMPANIES. 2,500 1/ 5s 6d Bath 5,000 5 . 00 0 I . sl a ,j r d' e l l e , en s t ; . l Ditto Provincial 2O/. sh. 19 d 023 5/ 10s Birmingham 50/ sh. 1,250 21 Os Bristol 1,500 3,10 s Brighton 750 '3l Ws Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 181. pd 2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd 4,000 4/. Continental Cansolitlated lOOl. 021/. pd 1,000 101. City of London '00!. sh. all pd 1,000 61. Ditto, New ... .. 100/. s!i. 601. pd 11,000 4!. les. Equitable ... . - PI. nil - - " ~.stovk 107 ~.St•, c l: 571 2.5C0 . . , :o,l'oo 21 per cent. Imperial Still 5/. per cent. Isle of Thairet 2,350 N. per cant. Independerit ...... 'DI. s 3. alp.. 1 9,0110 21. per cent. Plicr.mix ... 'AV. sh. SW. pd 1,000 4/. per cent. Rateliff l(l,i. sh. 00/. pd 1,01.) South ,''stropolitair 8,200 51. per cent. United General . 3O/..sh. 401. pd 240 5/. per cent. Warwick 400 101. per cent Wakefield 12,000 3/. Westmitister Chartered 0,0041 12s. Ditto New eco Yarmouth' 2O/. sh. lq. pd WATER %%Witt:S. 4,800 Os. Birmingham ' 251 sh. 25/ lid 1,134 CI. East London lOO/. sh. 5,500 21 lOs (Cr ore Junction .... Average 41/ 13s. 41. eh. 2,000 2/. Kent 100!. sh. 372 10/. Liverpool !tootle ` , 201. sh. 1,500 2110 e. .N ew diver I.olidon Bridge Water A lin u• ties 0,136 1/ 15s Woe:rester and Salford ' 100/. sh. 1,000 1. per cent. South Lon.lon lOOl. eh. •t,294 41. West ;Middlesex ....Average 03/. 12s. ski. sh. 1.360 1/ 14s York Ihritrliog Co. Lesse,• Prop ..... lOO/. sh. ILION RAILWAYS. 0,000 Birmingham and Derby ...... 2 , I. pd 9,590 Birmingham and Gloucester 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and lb.:Dies Junction 15; r:0 Bristol and Exeter 100/. sh. 10 pd 660 • Calcutta and Saugur 5O/. sh 2/. pd 7,500 ... .... Cheltenham and G. Western.... 001. sh. 711. 3,009 Clarence , 100/. sh. 100/..prl 12,000 Commercial Blackly , 0 %COO 60,00(1 Eastern Counties 251. Eh. 5/. p.l ((rand Junction 10(11. sh. 11 - :/. pt Great North of England l3 pd 5600 Great Western Md. sh (151. :,0 2,000 Hartlepool 6,000 Hull and `.lelby 501. sh. 10/. pd 10,000 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pd 2,100 Cl. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 4,500 1/.58. Leicester and Swannington ....501. sh. all pd 5,109 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester-10U sh. 100/. pa 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares "5/. pd 30,000 London and Brighto.i 5-4. sh. 04 pd 12,000 London and Blackwall Dl. sh 3/. pd 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich '2ol. sta. 20/. pd 25,000 London and Birmingham -1001. sh. ID!. pd Ditto Quarter Shares 5/ pd 20,.:00 London and Southampton .....'.Ol. sh. 591. pd Ditto ditto New 7,000 London and Croydon Trunk 2CI. sh. 22'/, pd 7,0' , 0 Ditto Scrip 14/. sh. 5/. lid 12,0ta) London Grand Junction 50/. sh. 5/. psi 10,000 AI .nchester and BiAnisigham...7e/. eh. 7/. pd North Midland 100/. sh. 251. p 0 Northet-n and Eastern lO2/. sh. 0/. pd 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 30/. pd 28,000 1,1100 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington ION. sh. 9000 1,400 Westminster and Greenwich 50/. sh. 2/. pd 6000 York and North Midland ...50 . sir. 12/. pd MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5l. sh. :311. pd 4,000 11. 58. Alten 151. sh. 121. his pd 10,000 ... ..... Anglo Mexican, iss. 51. ptn....1001. sh. all pd Ditto Subscription 0 .51. pa 2,000 101. BoL.nos 10,000 11. lOs Brazilian Imp iss. 51. pm 'l5/. sh. 20! p{l (1,0 , 0 Macaubas of Cocaes United -.25/. sh. 2 1. 1 d 11,000 Ditto St. John IM Rey "01 sh. Al. pd 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company '2O/. sh. 201. pd 10,000 Ditto Scrip... ..... .......... . lO/. sh. 8/. pd 0,000 British Iron . 5 Ol. sit. 50/ pd 6,000 British Copper 5l. sh. 41/. pd Cata Branca Cll. pd Candonga 751. pd 10,000 11 Copiapo 2Ol. sh 1211 pit 8,500 ... Columbian, iss. 5/. pm. 2,850 3/, English l2/ i(s. pd 20,000 General Mining, Assoclation...ll/. s;1. 15/. pd 6,155 Mexican Company 10u/. sh. 55 ti. RI :3,000 Polberou Consols.- lO/. sh 8/. pd 11,50). Steal del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes 150/. pd United Mexicali, iss. 2pm ....401. sh. all pd Dit , i. Scrip Ditto New Scrip 'il pc) West Cork 'O/. sh. 50/. pd LITERA BY I NSTITUTIONS. London, with Bronze Ticket 7 , gs. sh. London University 1 0 0/. sh. all 110 Russell "`vs. sh, King' College - lOW. pd MISCELL A NEOUS. 10,0iito 1 5,. Australian Arric iltural....loo/. sh 21 . ..1/. pd 6,0.4) 4/. per cent. British American Land Comp,aly O,l, pd :0.,,03 6 / ~,,,,it, Canada Comeany 10 , 1. sh. 281. pit •Ai),0.10 Si. per cent. Upper Cana:la Loai, Cily Ilcvds, flizr c00t..., 101. 1 1 1 ;e O r s c . e n t .. c'NLl'laocecoinnw,u!e,sitroisoanhiri, Brunswick I S . i ii.n t ees l e l , :a ci y . ; sink : i a ll t l i v i k l i nt : d 7 o t ai . : : : , a . ‘2. 1 .,5 : y.1 1. : A :e s t ; I . ,42 : • : 3 i I l i ' : s i' ll : i i. .),000 11. 8,000 2. 754 5/. per cent. liersrsionary Interest 50c...100/. sh, 1001. pd .' 1'33 5/. per cent. Ditto New ~,,. 19- /. sh. 701. pd 1,000 10,000 6,„ Van DAL act.'s Land 11101. sh 171. pd .I?,Q:11 I i,OOO 1,500 /00 G•U' 42„ 8 at 17i 173 :41 47 2; 19' 15,t O.) jii To 2 :3 15 LIST OF SCOTTISTI CWIPANIES' PRICES, JAN. 30, 1838. BANkS. 61.^p. ct. Ban% of ''ciftland ti3i. Os Sd. sh. all pd 1:;01. .4000,0 i. 5& p. ct. T opal of Scotland 160/. ,11. all rd / p. et. Brif.l,ll LMen Company IGO/. sh. .11 pi 9.3;4. :3 000,011'1. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5,,0).0 , . • ••• im nal .1004 sh. 101. pd l 6 c. 2,00, , ,0001. 61 p. ct. Glasio.w Union sh. 50/. pd t 1.3%. 1, 00u,of:0/. 4 p. ct. lA'estern of Seoflanil lOOl. sh 301. pd 40/ INSURANCE COMI'ANI.D. , 5,.0005h 64 p. ct.'Scott , sh Union O. 1/, pd 25is 64 , p. cf. ilercql,cs lOO/..6h. 101. pd 18/ 15%. I ,000 sp. Ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....10/. sh. nit pd 815$ 5 0 , 000 6p. ct, North 'British gh. 101. pd 161. Loop . sp. et. Cal :.31,•: - CL : n Fire „ „ .. .... 100/. sit. 10/. pd 1 1 1 0$ 5,000 p. et. F.. , ,httr,11 lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 14/10s 106,400 3Y p. ct, Wc.ii of Scotland.. lOl. 1)(1 vg MIS, I,LI.A.NEOUS. Edit). .nd Was. Un:Carla, % . 5 k4- '„h• all, 1) % 1 . 221 1 thtto Alloeated„ • '•501. 'n. ail pd . 5,100 5 per cent. F,t1;11)., Joint Stsick Water 25/. sh. all pd 3W. Carron tion Yompany ..... 250/. sh. 411 rat 45/. 2,000:h15 per Cent. Sixdts Iron Foundery,,, ..... .531 pd 441. 251. MI. all IM I SFI stL,!!c.d o • 10 3 ccLenat.. 1 F1 1 , 1 1 13 ,t ‘d ,r 1 1, 11 6 , lass sh. 161. pd 8/. !O per cent. tlla , go", Gas 7i per coot. Leith Coal (:as 20/. sh. all pd CAL 3,000 5 per ceßt. E l t in it b 3 u b r i g e h L p e n: n n c a o l ui ke r i 4 th w lt g a 4 : . : 4 7 ls ... , , , , s w o 2 ... s s , 601. 1,810 SPRING ASSIZES. _HOME CIRGUIT-(.:HELZISFORD, RCII 9. MSI PRIUS.--THE QUEEN V. T. DURRANT, J. MARSDEN, B. HART, AND T. STREET. This indictment ‘,as prererred against the several defen dants for an assault upon Thos. Warieg, an excise otaer, at Galieywoud Common, on the sth June last. The Learned Counsel having gone through the case on the part of the defendants, Lis Lordship summed up, and the jury found all the defendants Guilty. • ML. Durrant ssas set.t..nced to pay a fine of 100?. to the Queen ; Messrs. Matsden and Hart, to be imprisoned four, and Mr. Street three, months, inLthe Chelmsford. House of Correction. MIDLAND CIRC IT—NGTTINGIUM, MARCH 8. The cummisions for this town and county were opened yes terday in the County and Guildhall by Mr. Justice Lthledalc. There are but few prisoners aid few causes, and I ery little of interert exp, eted in either. The Learned Judge disposed of tl:e Tcwn eniendar bef:re he It ft the Hall. William Pearson, aged 16, was pli.c,:ql at the bar, on a charge of having rnaliciotly cut and stilbbed one Ebenezer liar kin, with httent to do him some grievous bodily harm. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Sentence of Death was recorded. NORFOLK CIRCUIT—ArLEsnuRr,.IILnicH 9. TIDAL OF W. F. ADAMS. Matthew Colyer sworn —I knew the deceased ; also his son, the prisoner. I r cot set when deceased was found dead. know the Now Bridge. al the day the deceased was found I was in the Hume Grcuud with Daniel Bull, John Hoperoft, and others. We wore at work together. I recollect the pri soner coming to us that afternoon between two and three. He had a single barrel gun. lie went out of the Home Ground (,v,r the brook into Turfmoor. He there shot at a flock of b. ks. I saw him sho,rt at a snipe in - Tut fmoor. He !eft Turin nor, in the (Erection of the tinnip fie id. I herd the rev.rt of a guu afterwards ; it appeared to come from the turnip fieid. It was, as near as I could guess, about half au hour after I saw him shoot the second time in Turf moor. I hoard the fourth report of a gun. Cannot say ex actly hcrw long it was after the third. The fourth report ap peered to come towards the fishpond. About ten minutes or a quarter of an hour aftex I heard the fourth shot prisoner was returning home on horseback. He was going to wards home. He was going full trot. I saw the de ceased in the same afternoon about three o'clock. The gun 'tad shot off twice in Turfrnuor when I saw deceased. The deceased came to us as we were at work. He left us, and went across the bill of the ground towards the cowhouse. Deceased was on horseback. Ihe prisoner, on his return, was on the same horse. •We were leaving our work as tire prioner passed by on his return. I saw no one else that day with a gun. John Hoperoft sworn—l was at work at the bridge for the parish on the 28th December last. I recollect when deceased was found dead. I was at the bridge that afternoon. I saw the prisoner a little after two. Can't tell the exact time. He came down as from home . He had a gun with him. He went away for Turfmoor. I saw him sloAtt off twice there. He then went to the corner of Turfmoor, towards the turnip- • field. I heard the third report of a gun; it appeared to come from the turnip-field. About twenty minutes after I heard the third I heard a fourth report of a gun. It seemed to conic from the .cowhouse way ; it was not so loud as the third. I saw the prisoner again returning towards home on his father's horse. It was about four o'clock. We were just giving over work. He was oa the full trot. It was about a quarter of art hour after I heard the fourth report. I sew no more of him that day. I saw no one else all day with a gun. Richard Judge—l am gamekeeper to Lord Chesterfield. I was at the Six Bells, et Burcott, when the prisoner called me out, and said ha father was missing, and had not been home since the afternoon. He asked me to go with him to search for his father. I went with him. He said he left his father at Broad Stichling; that he said he was going- to the new barn to watch Bone, rs he suspected hint of stealing the corn. We first went to the new barn, which is 400 or 800 yards from Broad Stichling. We went by the cowhouse : left it on our left hand; it was about 300 yards front us. We searched all the outbuildings at the new barn ; the barn was locked. The prisoner said he thought it was no use searching any further till morning. I said we had not reached Foxhill cowhouse, and we would go. When we searched the cow house I said the door is open. When within two yards of the door way prisoner said, " the hay has been moved since Iwo here last." I could see the bay very plain. I went in first. There was trussed hay on the lett side. I moved the hay, an d found the body of the deceased. His waistcoat was drawn up , I examined the spot next morning. It seemed as if he had fallen just out of the door way in the rickyard there was quantityof blood covered with clover. I knew the prisoners gun. The same day I found it by the clock. It was 11 ' 1 _ loaded. The body so c overe d could not have been done i n the dark. No one could h a ve seen t o h ave d one i t so cleverl y . The body was cold and stiff w h en p u t i n t o t h e cart. The P it soner left his father once f o r a f ew d a y s an d li ve d w ith me is about twelve months last Michaelmas. The jury, after further evidence had been heard, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—Your, MARCH 9. Matthetv Spalding was indicted for the manslaughter of Isabella Turner, on Tuesday, the sth of July last, at Hirst, in the West Riding. The jury brought in a verdict of Guilty, but recommended the prisoner to mercy. A memorial in his favour, with a host of signatures, was handed up to. the bench. —Sentence was deferred. SEDUCTION.-Wlll7 LEY V. MILLS. Mr. BAINS said that the plaintiff and the (lefendant were both resident in Huddersfield ; the former as bookkeeper to the Messrs. Marsden and Co., carriers, to whom he had been confidential clerk for upwards of twenty years ; the latter as a brewer. The plaintiff had a salary of but 1501. per annum ; he had a family of nine children, four of them daughters, the eldest of whom, now a b ou t 24 y ears o f age , was t h e subject "_ the present action. The plaintiff had, by diligence and atten tion succeeded in bringing them up in a respectable matin°L according to their stati o n in life. Th e d e f en d ant w as about twenty-eight vears of age, and carried on an extensive bu siness in Huddersfield, opposite the house of the plaintiff' In the beginning of 1832 an inti m a c y commence d b etw een tne parties. The matter was well known Co the friends of both; there was no concealment; but he came openly to the plai n ; tiff's house as his daughter's suitor ; b u t i t was as a matter course gratifying to the plaintiff to find as he supposed one °I his family, whom he had struggled to maintain, and educate" respectably, about to be comfortably settled. Up to the middle of 1836 the plaintiff had no reason to doubt the honour" able intentions of the defendant. In that year, however, she became pregnant, and in September a child was born. Th e plaintiff had other daughters rising to womanhood, and it was for the Jury to read the defendant, and such as he, a lesson, a° had often before been read by a Jury in that box. - The &- fondant was well able to pay such damages as they should award. He was joint-proprietor with Mr. Kaye in the brewcrY at Huddersfield, a property which he, as .eldest son, had re ceived from his father.—Verdict for the plaintiff, Damages 3 00 guineas. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. G UILDHAL L. On Saturday Thomas Williams, Esq., of Brynbras Castle' Carnarvonshire, and Ellen Evans and Ann Williams, his servants, were re-examined, charged with f org i ng a will an d r codicils, purporting to b e th ose o f J ones P anton, E s q., 9' Plasgwyn, in Anglesey. Two examinations had previously taken place, and the evidence adduced on those occasions was given in our paper of the 25th ult. The examination of to day (Saturday) occupied a considerable time ; but it was re" stricted to showin g th e pro b a bili ty of the genuineness of vs ill giving the bulk o f th e property to the prosecutor, Mr' Barton Panton, the s on o f th e testator, the circu m stances to ". show the invalidity of th e d ocuments produced by the accuse being reserved. Mr. Ramsay Willi a m s , o f P enr h os , an attorney, ident ifi e d documents put into his hand s as th e w ill an d co di c il , t h e l at ter of which gave the hulk of th e p ro p er ty t o th e prosecutor. The prisoner was remand e d f o r a wee k. the 7 i A PIOUS FRAUD.--" One bi r d i n th e hall(' s worth two in the bush."—There is, in the department of C 51... vados, a certain religious house, the members of which crav e mightily for the good things of this world. An old priest , who possessed a handsome fortune, chose this establishment o ' 0, • wherein t o en d his day s i n p eac e. B e i ng on t h e point death, th e su perior of the hou se a p proac h e d t h e s i c k man bcd and told him he would perform an act at once, agreeable to heaven, and useful to the establishment, if he would make his will in its favour. Be it so, replied the dying man, such was my intention. An authenticated will was accordingly .drawn out. The testator stied a short time after : on examining papers the will was not to be found. Look again, said the exnectant man of God, I know there is a w ill in existeneu• The document was in fact found by the magistrate before wh om the search was made, briefly stating, is m , " I beqyueath to my nephew the whole of property."— ,, The Pate was posterior to the one dra wn ou t by th e lawyer. Droit. last will."-- ,„--r-- _ .. _ ._..... The NEW FLAT GOLD WATCH E Cold cases, with ver ti za l movement £7 0 The pitt oi,n-,,ivcie in a- thwe'll-finished horizontal movement, in double bottomed engine -turned cases, jewelled in four holes, 9 9 0 with silver dial T. COX SAVORY, Working Silversmith and Jeweller, 47 ' Cornhill, London (Seven doors fr'om Gricechureh-street). N. B. the Horizontal Construction is particularly reccoomend ed for its superior accuracy. ____.... • 11 I 7' S On the 4th in Cheapside, Mrs. . A. Burghes, of a daughter : On the 4th inst , the lady of C. W. Iloskyns, Esq., of Ch ester square, Eaton-square, of a daughter. 111.4 On the 3d inst., at St. Helen's, Ilishopsgate, Charles, eldest s°,' T, Henshavv, Esq., of St r eath am hill to , Mary Ann Whit bread► niece of Mrs. Adamson, of St. Helen's-place. ------- D 1 MD. On the 16ili ult. in Catheri ne - s t ree t, C omm ercial -road Eas t, Sarah, relict of T. ' ingman, formerly of How Fsrm, Sheen, near .Guildford, Surrey, aged 73. On the sth inst., in Hunter-street, aged 71, Ann, relict of M r ' Thos. Gilbert. On the 6th lust , at Wokingham, Berkshire, Mrs. Beak, rel ict of J. Boak, Esq., of Leadenhall-street, aged 86. Lon&a: 'Printed and PubliFlied Y()UN o ' l t 112, Str an d, a t The Sine Olipe, No. 11", Strand,in t he coun of Middlesex.—Atemday, March 12, 1838.